Welcome to CuePlay

A long time ago I ripped my entire CD collection to a bunch of mp3 files. I wanted to listen to my music on my laptop. However, I've got a lot of classical music and as I didn't want the annoying MP3 Gap during a track change while listing to e.g. a Mahler symphony, I decided to rip each CD to 1 single mp3 file, accompanies by a CUE Sheet (see wikipedia). I could have choosen to rip my CDs to a bunch of FLAC files, but FLAC format just takes too much space for me. So I choose a good quality mp3.

This works great with software like FooBar2000 on Windows. It didn't work that well on Linux, because there was no player that could handle cuesheets very well. So, I just wrote my own Gtk-Perl application, CuePlay, that I could use as my music center.

CuePlay (screenshots) is an audio player for Linux and Mac OS X (currently only 10.6 is supported). It has been created to be able to play MP3 and FLAC files with cuesheets. This enables one to create one long MP3/FLAC file and index it with a .cue file.

Features

Currently CuePlay supports:

mp3 files with cue sheets.
flac files with cue sheets.
mp3 files with m3u playlists.
Listening and recording Web Radio.

Music files are put into a Music directory, which may contain subdirectories, along with playlist files (.cue and .m3u). That's all. CuePlay lets you navigate through your Music directory and choose the music to play. CuePlay features cover images through an extra tag in .cue files or a 'cover.jpg' file. The format of cue sheets for CuePlay can be found here. CuePlay uses mpg123 and flac123 for playback.

Installing

On Mac OS X, just copy the CuePlay icon to your application folder. CuePlay expexts your music files in a subdirectory of your Music folder: <Music folder>/CuePlay. That's all and should make CuePlay do it's job.

Using Ubuntu, just install the downloaded '.deb' file using 'Ubuntu Software Centre'. CuePlay defaults to the ALSA sound system on your primary sound device (hw:0,0) and expects it's music in the directory '~/Muziek'.

After installing CuePlay, you can edit '~/.cueplay/cueplay.ini' to change these settings. If you are running CuePlay and want your sound on a secondary sound device (e.g. an USB sound device, connected to your HiFi), you need to change some settings and do some special stuff for playing flac files.

Screenshots

CuePlay in Action (v0.70)
CuePlay in action on Mac OS X 10.6 (v0.70)

Contents of a CuePlay Music Directory